True the planet will probably be better off without your carbon footprint, belching and farting methane, driving a car, and breathing – but what about your coffin. Don’t make your final act be as environmentally counterproductive as the rest of your infestation/life on this planet.

This tasteful recycled paper coffin screams flower toting tree hugger, as you are being lowered into mother earth.

Ashes to ashes dust to Ecocoffins – but the humiliation of having bugs laugh at you while they eat your rotting corpse is too much for some.

These tasteful coffin covers make it look like you went out and bought a real coffin, but without the eco or financial cost. Kinda like eating with a girl and pretending to tip but taking it back as you walk out – economical and keeps up appearances.

You might want to skip that viking funeral/afterlife barbeque – all the smoke is a major environmental fau paux.

You might want to skip that viking funeral/afterlife barbeque – all the smoke is a major environmental fau paux.

Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak takes bodies within a few days and freezes them in liquid nitrogen. This makes the body very brittle. The body is then slightly vibrated which turns the body into a powder. A vacuum chamber is then used to evaporate away any water so that the powder is dry. The powder is then placed in a small corn or potato starch coffin and is buried to decompose within a few months. This reduces the environmental impact on water, air and soil compared to a normal burial or cremation.

It seems to me it would be more eco-friendly to just start leaving people dead wherever they fall or maybe just move them to the garden or compost heap in the yard, or just feeding you to stray dogs. We could make Soylent Green pet food!

Soylent Green – 70s movie and famous book where the starving planet started eating people – kinda like Hollywood, only better for the environment.